Health
COVID-19 vaccine now available to Louisianans 16 and older with certain health conditions
Gov. John Bel Edwards expanded access to COVID-19 vaccines in Louisiana on Tuesday, adding people 16 and older who have at least one qualifying medical condition and those who work in prisons, group homes and other congregate living facilities to the list of eligible recipients. The announcement comes on the one-year anniversary of Louisiana’s first […]
Louisiana will make many more people eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday
Gov. John Bel Edwards is expected to greatly expand access to the COVID-19 vaccines in Louisiana Tuesday, adding people with more than 20 health conditions and those who work in jails and prisons to the list of those eligible to receive them. Health care providers who didn’t want to be named shared an expanded list […]
Louisiana vaccine events for the week of March 8-13
The Louisiana Department of Health is holding 31 community vaccination events in five of its public health regions this week. On Monday health officials administered COVID-19 vaccines in Orleans, Iberia, Winn, Beauregard and Avoyelles parishes. This week’s remaining vaccination events are as follows, (registration required): Tuesday, March 9 Orleans Parish: 7 a.m. to 5 […]
Senate panel splits over Xavier Becerra, Biden’s pick to lead Health and Human Services
WASHINGTON — A Senate panel divided evenly along party lines Wednesday over the nomination of Xavier Becerra, President Biden’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. The 14-14 vote came in the Senate Finance Committee, with Democrats in support of advancing Becerra’s nomination and Republicans opposed to sending it to the full […]
LSU system submits missing sexual harassment reports
LSU submitted more of its campus reports on sexual harassment that are required by the state this week, after the Illuminator and Associated Press published stories saying the higher education system had missed a deadline to file most of them. The reports for LSU’s Alexandria, Eunice and Shreveport campuses were late. The university’s two health […]
Catholics looking to decline one COVID-19 vaccine for another aren’t likely to have that option
New Orleans area Catholics may face difficulty in trying to follow vaccination guidance by the Archdiocese of New Orleans to choose to receive a COVID-19 vaccine from Moderna or Pfizer rather than the new one from Johnson & Johnson, as Gov. John Bel Edwards said Tuesday, vaccination providers aren’t offering patients a menu to order […]
Cancer Alley’s been ignored by state’s top Democrats, activist says in Poor People Campaign event
One of the nation’s most prominent defenders of the poor and their right to live in environments free of pollution included Louisiana’s Cancer Alley in his weekly call to activism Monday during which a St. James Parish resident accused the state’s leading Democrats, specifically Gov. John Bel Edwards and former Rep. Cedric Richmond, of ignoring […]
More than a million COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in Louisiana
More than a million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in Louisiana, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced on Twitter Monday. “We still have work to do, but this milestone marks a big step in putting this pandemic behind us,” Gov. John Bel Edward wrote. “These vaccines are saving lives every day and bringing us closer […]
Louisiana could receive Johnson & Johnson vaccines ‘as soon as next week,’ Edwards says
Louisiana could receive COVID-19 vaccine doses made by Johnson & Johnson “as soon as next week,” Gov. John Bel Edwards announced during a press conference Thursday afternoon, an addition that could add up to 38,000 doses to next week’s vaccine distribution total. “This is very, very exciting for us for a number of reasons,” Joe […]
Louisiana gave Ochsner Health 20 percent of all COVID-19 vaccine doses, data shows
Ochsner Health was the single largest recipient of COVID-19 vaccine from Louisiana during the first nine weeks of distribution, with its facilities getting about 20 percent of all doses given out by the state, according to an analysis done by Louisiana Illuminator of data publicly released by the Louisiana Department of Health. Ochsner facilities — […]
Louisiana’s timetable for road, power and water system repairs unknown
State officials say there is still no timetable for when state highways will fully reopen because the weather has been so unpredictable. Gov. John Bel Edwards said on his monthly radio show on 89.3 FM WRKF in Baton Rouge that Interstate 10 from Baton Rouge to Lafayette would undergo a “staged reopening” because temperatures in […]
Louisiana’s bad weather delays vaccine shipments, appointments
The Louisiana Department of Health says bad weather across the state delayed vaccine shipments to hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and other health care providers. The delays are expected to affect people’s ability to get both first and second doses of vaccines in the coming days. “This is similar to delays in other areas outside of Louisiana […]